Rightside™ Partners with NameJet for Initial New Top Level Domain Auctions

Thursday, April 24, 2014

NameJet and Rightside have partnered to help launch the new Top Level Domains (TLDs), .DANCE and .DEMOCRAT, through the use of landrush and premium auctions.

Kirkland, WA

Rightside Registry, a generic Top Level Domain registry owned by Rightside, is now offering early access to their first two TLDs, .DANCE and .DEMOCRAT, in the landrush phase of their release. Rightside has selected NameJet to manage auctions for both landrush and upcoming premium auctions for these TLDs. At the conclusion of the landrush phase, all available domain names that receive multiple early access (landrush) applications will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Landrush for .DANCE and .DEMOCRAT opened April 16th and will close on May 5th, with general availability opening for each domain on May 21st. Additionally, upcoming Rightside TLDs .REVIEWS and .NINJA begin landrush in early May and will also have auctions operated by NameJet.

In conjunction with the beginning of the .DANCE general availability period, NameJet will be operating featured auctions for premium .DANCE domains including:ballroom.dance chicago.dance touchdown.dance

These auctions are all scheduled to close May 20th - 22nd. For a full list of the .DANCE Premium auctions closing in late May, please visit http://www.namejet.com/featuredauctions/dance.

“NameJet is committed to being a leader in the new TLD auction space, offering some of the most desirable TLDs available,” said Matt Overman, General Manager, NameJet. “This is just the beginning of our strategic partnership with Rightside. In addition to these TLDs, we plan on bringing more to the market as they become available from Rightside and our other registry partners.”

Jeff Eckhaus, Senior Vice President, Market Development and Policy, Rightside said, “Our relationship with NameJet, combined with their experience in new TLD launch auctions and recent sales trends, make them the ideal partner. We’re looking forward to working with NameJet to launch these TLDs and more.”

In the United States there are more than 25,000 professional dancers, 32,000 dance studios, and 38,000 choreographers with LinkedIn profiles. The .DANCE TLD is targeted toward this passionate and enthusiastic group. With the popularity of programs like Dancing With The Stars, which has a weekly audience of over 13 million, the .DANCE domain will give individuals and organizations a powerful and previously unavailable platform for branding.

The .DEMOCRAT TLD appeals to a large market of candidates running for elected office, political enthusiasts, organizations passionate about political identity, and consultants/advisors. There are currently greater than 43 million registered Democrats in the United States and an estimated 500,000 elected officials. With $644 million spent in the last Presidential election cycle, the .DEMOCRAT TLD will give Democrats a new and powerful way to reach their supporters and strengthen their brand.

About NameJet:

NameJet is a joint venture between Demand Media, Inc. and Web.com Group, Inc. who each own two of four leading ICANN-accredited registrars (eNom, Name.com, Network Solutions and Register.com). Launched in 2007, with core auction software and technical infrastructure operating since 2004, NameJet serves domain investors, Fortune 500 companies and their representatives, small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as a diverse and global mix of individual investors. It has processed over 200,000 domain auctions, establishing itself as a trustworthy and transparent auction platform that is customer-focused and user-friendly.

About Rightside:

Rightside inspires and delivers new possibilities for consumers and businesses to define and present themselves online. The company, with its affiliates, is a leading provider of domain name services, offering one of the industry’s most comprehensive platforms for the discovery, registration, development, and monetization of domain names. This includes 15 million names under management, the most widely used domain name reseller platform, more than 20,000 distribution partners, an award-winning retail registrar, the leading domain name auction service through its NameJet joint venture and an interest in more than 100 new Top Level Domain registry operator agreements or applications through Rightside affiliate, United TLD Holdco Limited, operating as Rightside Registry. Following its planned separation from Demand Media, Rightside will be home to some of the most admired brands in the industry, including eNom, Name.com, and NameJet (in partnership with Web.com). Headquartered in Kirkland, WA, Rightside has offices in North America, Europe and Australia. For more information please visit http://www.rightside.co.

New gTLD .wiki Offered to the Public by Top Level Design, LLC, with NameJet's Support

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

NameJet.com is partnering with Top Level Design, LLC, to bring the new gTLD .wiki to the domain name marketplace. NameJet will oversee the Sunrise and Landrush auctions and help with future premium auctions.

Kirkland, WA

Top Level Design, LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .wiki, has selected NameJet, the leading domain name auction platform, to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions and help with future premium auctions.

NameJet provides .wiki the complete auction solution needed to manage the .wiki launch. NameJet’s proven platform, by which millions of names are made available and sold, is poised to help bring new .wiki domain names to market with Sunrise expected to begin in March, 2014. Additional details will be made available on NameJet’s New TLDs page as they become available. “The introduction of the .wiki top level domain is a historic event in the evolution of the Internet and we’re excited to be a part of launching such a dynamic TLD,” said Matt Overman, General Manager of NameJet.

The .wiki TLD will make wikis more valuable through greater visibility and ease of use. Most Internet users are familiar with the concept of wikis, thanks to Wikipedia.org’s status as one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world. “There is something unique and magical about wiki’s revolutionary publishing style that will continue to bring like-minded people together to create amazing and ever growing resources,” said Raymond King, CEO, Top Level Design LLC.

Enterprise wikis are best suited to organizations and corporations. The most innovative and organized companies already bring their staff together via wiki.

Enthusiast wikis provide a platform to organize information based on shared common interests. The .wiki TLD will empower a revolution for fandom, hobbyists, and academics. Wikipedia is the largest example of an enthusiast wiki, but Top Level Design hopes to foster a boom in specialty wikis.

Developer wikis are the natural place to host development and open source projects. It is visible and accessible, and it creates an intuitive space for any groups that develop through collaboration. Most developers are already connected and working with their colleagues via wiki, and so the new namespace will become a natural home base for them.

An individual wiki focuses closely on a person or family, with a .wiki domain name dedicated to an individual, one can participate in the creation process and invite others to do the same. The result will likely be quite different but complementary to a well-written Wikipedia biography.

About NameJet:

NameJet is a joint venture between Demand Media, Inc. and Web.com Group, Inc. who each own two of four leading ICANN-accredited registrars (eNom, Name.com, Network Solutions and Register.com). Launched in 2007, with core auction software and technical infrastructure operating since 2004, NameJet serves domain investors, Fortune 500 companies and their representatives, small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as a diverse and global mix of individual investors. It has processed over 200,000 domain auctions, establishing itself as a trustworthy and transparent auction platform that is customer-focused and user-friendly.

About Top Level Design, LLC:

The .wiki TLD is exclusively managed by Top Level Design, LLC, which was founded with the express intent to run new domain registries. Raymond King is a wiki enthusiast, and he has founded or been involved in a number of prominent wiki projects and companies, including AboutUs Inc., the largest website directory; WikiIndex, the wiki on wikis; and ICANNWiki, the wiki dedicated to the ICANN space.

NameJet Announces .MENU Top Level Domain in Sunrise

Thursday, January 23, 2014

The generic Top Level Domain (TLD) .MENU is currently in the sunrise stage of release in accordance with ICANN regulations, with auctions scheduled for mid-February 2014.

Kirkland, WA

The .MENU Registry has opened the sunrise phase of release for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .MENU. The registry has partnered with NameJet to run all auctions for both the sunrise and landrush phases of the TLD launch.

The .MENU Top Level Domain is ideally suited for restaurants, catering businesses, food service industries, and food enthusiasts. During the sunrise phase, trademark holders are given the opportunity to acquire .MENU domain names that correspond to their trademarks prior to the domains being released to the general public.

“With so many new top level domains coming to market in 2014, the Q1 launch of .MENU puts the registry in a great position to capitalize on early consumer interest,” said Matt Overman, General Manager of NameJet. “The addition of a dedicated online space for menus will only add momentum to what companies like Yelp, Zagat, OpenTable and Urban Spoon have already started.”

NameJet is the exclusive auction platform for .MENU, and will oversee auctions during the sunrise and landrush phases of release, as well as premium domain auctions.

Trademark holders who wish to acquire a .MENU domain should submit an application with a registrar that is offering .MENU domains such as http://www.encirca.com. In any instance where domains receive two or more successful applications, NameJet will operate the auction to resolve the contention allowing all parties to bid for the rights to the domain name. The Sunrise window for .MENU officially opened on December 9, 2013 and the deadline to apply is February 6, 2014. Auctions are scheduled to run during mid-February at NameJet.com. For more information, please visit NameJet’s New TLDs web page.

About NameJet:

NameJet is a joint venture between Demand Media, Inc. and Web.com Group, Inc. who each own two of four leading ICANN-accredited registrars (eNom, Name.com, Network Solutions and Register.com). Launched in 2007, with core auction software and technical infrastructure operating since 2004, NameJet serves domain investors, Fortune 500 companies and their representatives, small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as a diverse and global mix of individual investors. It has processed over 200,000 domain auctions, establishing itself as a trustworthy and transparent auction platform that is customer-focused and user-friendly.

About .MENU Registry:

The .MENU Registry offers a new, intuitive and targeted namespace which will allow restaurateurs, food service industry professionals and food enthusiasts to expand their web presence and use behavior beyond .com in a more relevant corner of the Internet. The word “menu” means the same thing in languages across the world and reflects what is often the most important item of information consumers look for when considering dining options. Wedding TLD2, LLC, the operator of the .MENU Registry, is a privately held company based in California. For more .MENU information, please visit http://www.dot-menu.com.

Chinese Premium Domain Names Available for Auction at NameJet

Thursday, December 19, 2013

NameJet.com and FindYourDomain.com have once again partnered to feature a select group of premium Chinese, single word generic .com domain names on NameJet’s award-winning auction platform.

Kirkland, WA

FindYourDomain is now offering a group of premium Chinese language domain names at NameJet. All of the names being auctioned have multiple meanings, with each also doubling as a common Chinese surname. For example:
xiao.com liu.com zhao.com zhou.com jiang.com liang.com liao.com

These domains are available to backorder now, with the auctions running from January 3rd to January 14th, 2014.

The market for Chinese domain names has been highly active over the past year. 4.cn is a Chinese marketplace that deals almost exclusively with Chinese domain names and boasts 280,000 customers and 1.6 million domains. Numeric domains are selling at all-time highs, most noticeably the $2.1 million dollar sale of 114.com. FindYourDomain has also had great success selling Chinese .COM domain names recently, selling feng.com in late 2012 for $250k and shen.com for $125k. On top of that, NameJet added the sale of xiaoxiao.com for $51k in Nov 2013.

“NameJet is truly an international marketplace for domain names,” said Matt Overman, General Manager of NameJet. “In the last year we have had customers come to us from over 200 countries, and nearly 10% of those come from China. The demand for numeric domains and for one word generic Chinese domains is hard to keep up with.”

FindYourDomain Broker Michael Cox said, “NameJet has done an outstanding job in helping us to market and sell our premium domain names. We’re excited to be partnering with them to offer some of the best Chinese .COM inventory in the marketplace.”

About NameJet:

NameJet is a joint venture between Demand Media, Inc. and Web.com Group, Inc. who each own two of four leading ICANN-accredited registrars (eNom, Name.com, Network Solutions and Register.com). Launched in 2007, with core auction software and technical infrastructure operating since 2004, NameJet serves domain investors, Fortune 500 companies and their representatives, small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as a diverse and global mix of individual investors. It has processed over 200,000 domain auctions, establishing itself as a trustworthy and transparent auction platform that is customer-focused and user-friendly.

About FindYourDomain.com

FindYourDomain.com was created in 2002 to provide companies with quality .com, .net, and .org domain names to use as corporate sites or in conjunction with web development projects. By acting as an intermediary between the seller of a domain name and the buyer, FindYourDomain.com ensures a smooth negotiation process as well as a secure and safe transaction. With over $10,000,000 in total domain name sales, FindYourDomain.com is one of the leading domain name brokerages. For more information, visit www.findyourdomain.com

MD.org Offered for Sale in Online Auction

FindYourDomain.com, a top brokerage for high-end domain names, has announced that MD.org has been listed in an online auction at NameJet.com, a world-renowned marketplace for domain names. The auction is open to the public and it will start on April 9, 2013 and end on April 12, 2013 at approximately 12PM PST. Auction participants will find a starting bid of $69 and a modest reserve price for this premium domain name.

The medical industry is one of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the world, typically contributing over 10% of the gross domestic product in developed nations such as the US.* In the past decade, many health care related companies have begun to assert their virtual presence by establishing websites to allow for current customers to access their services as well as provide prospective customers the chance to obtain more information.

As the number of mobile device and tablet users increases, the demand for shorter domain names such as MD.org is becoming apparent. MD.org provides an instant competitive advantage for any organization desiring to make their mark in the online medical space. This is the first time that this versatile two letter .ORG domain name has ever been marketed for sale.

"The value of MD.org is apparent in the succinct nature of the name and widespread use of the term 'MD'. MD.org would be a perfect fit for any health care provider, professional, or investor seeking to establish a new website or re-brand with an easy to access name," said FindYourDomain Marketing Manager Tom Salbego.

NameJet is a joint venture between Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW), who together own four leading ICANN-accredited registrars (eNom, Name.com, Network Solutions and Register.com). Launched in 2007 with core auction software and technical infrastructure operating since 2004, NameJet serves domain investors, Fortune 500 companies and their representatives, small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as a diverse and global mix of individual investors. It has processed more than 200,000 domain auctions, establishing itself as a trustworthy and transparent auction platform that is customer-focused and user-friendly. For more information, go to www.namejet.com.

About FindYourDomain.com

FindYourDomain.com was created in 2002 to provide companies with quality .com, .net, and .org domain names to use as corporate sites or in conjunction with web development projects. By acting as an intermediary between the seller of a domain name and the buyer, FindYourDomain.com ensures a smooth negotiation process as well as a secure and safe transaction. With over $10,000,000 in total domain name sales, FindYourDomain.com is one of the leading domain name brokerages. For more information, visit www.findyourdomain.com

NameJet and Afternic Chosen as Platforms to Bring .MENU to Market

Monday, March 04, 2013

Together will serve Auctions and Premium Sales of new TLD

Kirkland, WA

WhatBox? LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .MENU, has selected NameJet, the leading domain name auction platform, and Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions, and offer premium name distribution for the .MENU top level domain (TLD). The company is targeting restaurants and food enthusiasts in its efforts to contribute to the evolving online culinary experience.

Working together, NameJet and Afternic provide .MENU a complete solution for the technical and marketing services needed to manage the .MENU launch. Due to a favorable result at the ICANN TLD draw, .MENU and NameJet are prepared to open the sunrise period immediately following the completion of the ICANN evaluation process. Sunrise auctions, the landrush period and premium name sales will begin shortly thereafter. NameJet’s proven platform, by which millions of names are made available and sold, is poised to help bring new TLDs to market. Last month, DMD announced its intent to spin off its domain services business, and NameJet is one component of its end-to-end solution, in addition to registration, registry and monetization services.

“NameJet is thrilled to be partnering with WhatBox? to operate auctions for .MENU, which we hope will be the first new English language TLD launched,” said Matt Overman, NameJet General Manager. “I look forward to utilizing our leading auction expertise to help promote the launch of .MENU and future TLDs that we expect to be rolled out this year.”

“NameJet and Afternic teamed up to offer the perfect solution for attaining both initial success during the launch phase and sustained adoption of .MENU,” said Erik Ludwick, co-founder of WhatBox? LLC. “We are excited to begin working with them on .MENU and look forward to expanding the relationship to other TLDs in the future.”

“We are excited to have been selected by WhatBox? to help create demand and to provide a distribution network for these new and exciting domain opportunities,” said Bob Mountain, senior vice president of Business Development & Account Services at Afternic. “The partnership with NameJet and WhatBox allows us to continue our mission of bringing high quality, premium domain opportunities to consumers across the globe.”

NameJet is a joint venture between Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW), who together own four leading ICANN-accredited registrars (eNom, Name.com, Network Solutions and Register.com). Launched in 2007 with core auction software and technical infrastructure operating since 2004, NameJet serves domain investors, Fortune 500 companies and their representatives, small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as a diverse and global mix of individual investors. It has processed more than 200,000 domain auctions, establishing itself as a trustworthy and transparent auction platform that is customer-focused and user-friendly. For more information, go to www.namejet.com.

About Afternic

Afternic is the world’s largest domain marketplace, offering millions of currently registered domains for sale through leading registrars worldwide that deliver millions of queries into the Afternic marketplace. Afternic is part of NameMedia, a leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital real estate through a network of highly targeted websites and a marketplace for premium domain names. The company’s website development focuses on creating compelling online communities in niche categories. The company’s marketplace allows owners of premium domain names to sell domains, and for domain buyers to review the largest available inventory. Through its ownership of one of the largest domain portfolios in the world, its innovative website development platform, and its broad distribution, NameMedia now serves more than 50 million visitors to its network of websites and sells domains to customers in more than 100 countries. Headquartered outside Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, more information is available at www.namemedia.com.